Week of October 28th, 2012

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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Hey there this is Susan. Welcome to the third Saturday of October, my week as your Saturday Designer. Has anyone else noticed WHAT Joy and Melanie have done to me??? Every month they have a fabulous guest designer, like Maria (!!) for this month, and my Saturday post follows these great guest designers!!! Such pressure.....

Okay enough with my whining, let's get on to today's projects. With Halloween just around the corner I thought we might need yet one more Halloween project (before we rush past Thanksgiving and move right into the Christmas season). I do not know about your house, but at our house Halloween is all about the little costume clad goblins that will be going door to door to collect their loot. I like to make a lasting impression on my trick or treaters, especially my special few trick or treaters, and with that in mind I created five gift boxes from Cricut's Happy Hauntings cartridge.

The first treat box is one of the two pumpkin boxes from the Happy Hauntings cartridge. I cut the base box in a Halloween print with an inset pumpkin face in orange gingham. I added black facial features, green stem (hidden) and I used ribbon to attach the name tag. I finished the box with a trick or treat stamp in the lower right corner.

The second box I am sharing today is one of the tombstone boxes. I like the idea of the tombstones but I did not want the tombstones to get too spooky. Some of my special trick or treaters are pre-schoolers and I did not want to frighten them. I cut this box in a fun fall polka dot pattern, inking the edges. I used a scrap of basic gray paper to add the front layer. The top layer is a scrap rectangle of cardstock stamped with a Happy Halloween stamp. I added the name tag to the box with a strip of orange and gold ribbon.

The next treat box is a Dracula trimmed casket. Okay I may be moving into the spooky realm. I cut the box in a fun Halloween multi-print with an orange gingham reverse. This fun green Dracula gets to spend his days surrounded by orange gingham. Again I added a Halloween stamp as well as a gingham name tag. And don't you love the spooky BOO ribbon?

The next treat box is a little darker yet, another coffin. Cut in black cardstock this coffin is embellished with a RIP (Rest in Peace) sign, gold Stickles, and a spooky little ghost. The ghost was cut from Paper Doll Dress Up. I attached the name tag to the ghost tag and embellished the tag with two ribbons.

The final treat box is the the darkest of them all, another Halloween coffin. Again this coffin was cut in black cardstock and again I embellished the top of the coffin with an RIP sign. Instead of cute stamps and ribbon, this coffin's only other decoration is this skull and crossbones metal embellishment. This box is for an older boy who would not have appreciated the ribbons.

I hope that I have given you some ideas of how to make your trick or treaters feel extra special when they visit your house. Again, all of these boxes were cut using Happy Hauntings; what a fabulous cartridge!!

You can visit my blog, Busy with the Cricky, by clicking on the name. While there be sure to check out my DVD set, It's a Kid's Life. The DVDs feature 18 layouts with video and pdf instructions as well as the cut files for all of the elements.

Susan, these are so cute. As soon as I send this comment, I'm going to go see if I can win a cart on e-bay. Didn't realize all that was on the card. That is why I am so glad for crafters like you that share their wonderful talents with us. Thank you.

I always look forward to your posts here. I LOVE these projects, especially that they are FUN and Halloween-ey, and not scarey. Just wonderful - thanks SO much for sharing!!Cheers, Karenalteredscrapbooking dot com

Susan, my scrapbooking friend, you put the pressure on yourself!! OMG! At least I had a whole week to do my projects, you did a whole weeks worth in ONE day! Love each and every one of them! Especially the "spookier" ones! :-)

Susan - These are adorable and so fun. I just got this cart a few days ago and can't wait to explore it. Now I know where I am going to start! TFS By the way, you have nothing to worry about. Maria had fabulous projects to share and so do you.Marcie

Susan..... You have nothing to worry about... your prjects are just as good and then some from the other designers! I LOVE YOUR PROJECTS!!! and I look forward to seeing them! :o)This set is sooooo stinkin' cute! I love the coffins and the treat boxes are WOW! LOVE THEM! TFS! :o)

Great projects! I don't "do" halloween as much as I do most of the other holidays but I really like the happy hauntings cart; I LOVE that font!! We have never done the spooky decorations, etc since our son was too scared by all that stuff when he was little so we do mainly "cutesy" stuff so our little goblins can enjoy it (they're my favs anyway). Thanks for sharing your projects!

This boxes are so adorable! I'm getting an Expression this week and have been looking at this cartridge but wasn't sure what I could do with it- now I know...and off I go to buy it! Thanks for sharing!

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We are a couple of Cricut lovers and bloggers who are excited to share our interest in the Cricut with others. We decided to do a blog devoted to Provo Craft's Cricut because people are always looking for great everyday Cricut ideas! We hope that by showing you some different things the cartridges can do, as well as some cuts you may have overlooked, that you are then able to be inspired to create some beautiful things.